gs has issues with pdfs which only consist of large images

[Thorsten]

Hello,

there seems to be a bug in the version 9.16 of ghostscript which prevents using ghostscript with pdfs created by some canon scanners which only consist of large images.
I wrongly associated this error with the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler-data/+bug/1438494, however cliddell corrected me and also directly pointed to his committed patch:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=668406a5 which should fix this issue.

With version 9.18 from http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html its working flawlessly.

The bug occurs when attempting to minimize the file size of such a pdf and the following error message is shown: (an example pdf is attached to this post)

$ gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -sOutputFile=out.pdf SCN_0002.pdf
GPL Ghostscript 9.16 (2015-03-30)
Copyright (C) 2015 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
**** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
**** File did not complete the page properly and may be damaged.

**** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
**** The file was produced by:
**** >>>> MP540 series <<<<
**** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
**** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
**** specification.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Do you mean that this bug is fixed in GS 9.18 via

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=668406a5

and you like to have an SRU for Wily with this patch backported into Wily's GS 9.16?

[cliddell (cjl)]

The problem is already fixed in 9.18. If wanted to apply the fix to the 9.16 code in Ubuntu 15.10, you can pull the patch from:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=668406a5

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